Featured in jan-feb 2018
Jul 15, 2020
Turn any magazine into a flashlight with this optical illusion
Batteries not required.
May 08, 2020
Here’s why your brain is so bad at those ‘spot the difference’ games
They entertained you for entire minutes at the dentist’s office.
Jun 08, 2018
What it really takes to power your home for a day
Here's how much gas, coal, oil, wind, solar, water, or nuclear fuel is required.
May 10, 2018
What is a horsepower?
It's enough to power a coffeemaker or boil 2.2 gallons of water.
Jan 29, 2018
Robert Afzal is developing powerful laser blasters for the U.S. military
Dynamite with a laser beam.
Jan 20, 2018
In photos: updating New York’s vast and fragile telecom backbone
The cables that keep information flowing through the Big Apple are undergoing a transformation, from aging copper to strong and fast fiber.
Jan 18, 2018
Hackers are attacking the electric grid
And computer scientists are trying to stop them.
Jan 15, 2018
Get off the couch and under a barbell with this weightlifting starter kit
You don't need to be The Mountain from Game of Thrones to start moving mass.
Jan 13, 2018
Inside the country’s biggest nuclear power plant tear-down
Unbuilding an atomic giant.